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Stimulated by the exceeding progress of information technology, the development of mineral exploration has entered a new period of digitization and quantification. The “three components” approach of mineral prediction is suggested as a new approach to the “digital mineral prospecting,” which is based on the geoanomaly analysis, directed by the research on the diversity of mineralization and on the spectrum of mineral deposits. Close combination of these three aspects of quantitative study makes a new starting point to the digital prospecting. In this paper, the basic theories of the “three components” approach of mineral prediction are discussed. In addition, based on the new achievements in the studies on the prediction and assessment of solid minerals and gas–oil resources, we have centered our discussion on the thought of analysis of geoanomaly evolution and on the “5P” method for approaching the target area in the “three components” approach of mineral prediction. 相似文献
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E. D. Attanasi 《Natural Resources Research》1998,7(4):271-279
According to the National Research Council’s Committee on Earth Resources the stated goal of the “sustainability” paradigm
is that the economic activity that maintains current well-being not make future generations worse off, either through environmental
degradation or resource depletion. Coal is not “running out” in the United States but the effects of economic deregulation
of electricity generation, new air quality standards (Phase II of the 1990 Clear Air Act Amendments), and continued restructuring
of the coal mining industry will likely stretch lowsulfur coal supplies in the next decade. The paper discusses these forces
and then presents summary coal quality data in the form of grade-cumulative tonnage relationships for major U.S. producing
areas to show where future low-sulfur coal supplies are likely to come from. The final section considers the potential magnitude
of additional demand for low-sulfur coal, alternative compliance strategies, and implications in terms of maintaining economic
efficiency and in terms of the “sustainability paradigm.” 相似文献
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WANG Xiqin ZHANG Yuan LIU Changming 《地理学报(英文版)》2007,17(3):304-316
In this article the meaning of the quantity and quality of environmental flows of river in dualistic water cycle is discussed, and compared with the meaning of unitary water cycle. Based on the analysis of the relationship between environmental flows of river requirements, the efficiency of water resource usage, the consumption coefficient, and the concentration of waste water elimination, the water quantity and water quality calculation method of the environmental flows of river requirements in dualistic water cycle is developed, and the criteria for environmental flows of river requirements are established, and therefore the water quantity-quality combined evaluation of natural river flows requirements are realized Taking the Liaohe River as a model, the environmental flows of river requirements for Xiliao River, Dongliao River, mainstream Liaohe River, Huntai River and northeast rivers along the coasts of the Yellow and Bohai seas in unitary water cycle are calculated, each taking up 39.3%, 63.0%, 43.9%, 43.3% and 43.5% of runoff respectively. Evaluated according to Tennant recommended flow, the results show that： except Xiliao River is ＂median＂, the rest are all upon ＂good＂, the Dongliao River is even ＂very good＂. The corresponding results in dualistic water cycle are that, the proportion of natural flows for each river is 57.5%, 74.1%, 60.8%, 60.3% and 60.4%; while the combined evaluation results show that： considering ＂quantity＂, except Xiliao River, the rest rivers can all achieve the ＂quantity＂ criteria of the en- vironmental flows of river requirements, but if considering the aspect of ＂quality＂, only Dongliao River can reach the ＂quality＂ standard. By water quantity-quality combined evaluation method, only Dongliao River can achieve the criteria. So the water quality is the main factor that determines whether the environmental flows can meet the river ecosystem demands. 相似文献
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Albert A. Bartlett 《Natural Resources Research》2006,15(3):151-164
This paper examines the implications of statements by Australia’s Minister of… Resources that Australia’s exports of coal
are growing rapidly and that Australia’s coal will last “110 years at current rates of production.” If one assumes that coal
production P(t), follows a Gaussian curve (similar to a Hubbert curve) one can construct a family of Gaussian curves showing possible future
paths of P(t) which are consistent with the cited “110 years.” Each curve reaches a maximum after which P(t) declines toward zero. Knowledge of the present value of dP/dt allows one member of the family to be identified as the most probable future path of P(t). Families of curves and tabular data are presented for resource quantities that would last 50, 100 and 200 years “at current
rates of production.” If, instead, Australia’s P(t) follows a declining exponential curve (exp(−kt)) with k = (1/110) per year, the stated quantity of coal will allow production to continue forever, with P(t) declining with a half life of 76 y. This and more rapidly declining exponential paths are the only paths that can be said
to be sustainable. The envelope of the family of Gaussian curves divides the (P, t) plane into “allowed” and “forbidden” areas.
The declining exponential curve divides the “allowed” area into an upper area that is “terminal” and a lower area that is
“sustainable.” These facts, coupled with Australia’s expectations of rapid growth of its population, suggest that Australia’s
present resource policies are “anti-sustainable” and that the people of Australia need to rethink their present policy of
rapidly exporting their fossil fuels. 相似文献
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For the Tuvalu Island group in the western Pacific, a simple graphical method is proposed as a means of forecasting whether
rainfall totals for the next 1, 2,…,6 months will be below average. The method is based on scatter plots where the points
are color-coded as above- or below-average rainfall, with the plot axes being lag-1 and lag-2 NINO4 sea surface temperatures.
Within the scatter plots there are reasonably clear data fields with higher frequencies of below-average rainfalls associated
with cooler precursor NINO4 temperatures. These data fields are defined by subjectively emplaced separation lines which bifurcate
the scatter plots into “predictable” and “unpredictable” fields. If two precursor NINO4 temperature values define a point
located in a predictable field then a warning would be issued for below-average rainfall over the next n-month period, depending on the time scale of the scatter plot. A long rainfall record at Funafuti in Tuvalu indicates that
success in predictable-field forecasting of below-average rainfalls would range between 68% for 1-month rainfall totals and
89% for 6-month totals. The forecasting success derives from persistence of cooler NINO4 sea surface temperatures which are
associated with lower rainfalls in Tuvalu. However, many dry periods are also located in the unpredictable field and cannot
be forecast by this method. 相似文献
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西辽河流域全新世以来的农业垦殖活动(英文) 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
The agricultural reclamations in the Xiliao River Valley since the Holocene have led to a huge landscape change from grassland to farmland. In this paper we reconsider the man-land relationship in the Xiliao River Valley by analyzing three major agricultural reclamations in prehistory, the Liao-Jin Dynasty and the period since the Qing Dynasty. We argue that when the demographic pressure appears in this area, especially during the last reclamation, the intraregional migration (second migration) is the major response to relieve such pressure, which also distinguishes two different settlement locations: "the initial area" and "the secondary area". Due to the environmental differences between these two areas, the cultivation on the latter one has caused more serious disturbance to the local environment. Thus the secondary area has become the key region which needs environmental management seri-ously. 相似文献
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An oases dynamics model and its application in the Manas oasis 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
This study applies theories of systems and system dynamics to ecological economic systems in the oasis environment, with the
intention of finding the basic characteristics of the oasis environment and its feedback structures. This study explores the
inner mechanisms of economic development in the oasis environment and its relationship to policy variables. This model is
applied to economic development in the Manas oasis of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. System dynamics method
starts from studying feedback structure within the system study and then searches for the best solution through identifying
the right “policy point” and through model simulation in the computer. It embodies the cream of “systems cybernetics theory”.
This study is justified because the nature of the oasis system and the simulation results are scientifically sound and practically
feasible. 相似文献
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Unlike other branches of geosciences, exploratory drilling has not been investigated within the framework of an information
system; so, the expression “value of exploratory drilling information” (despite its common usage) is vague. This article presents
a model for the evaluation of value of the information gathered from exploratory drilling after studying different mineral
exploration and exploratory drilling systems within the framework of an “information system.” Although this model does not
present the economic value of information, it is a suitable tool for comparing different drilling patterns. The model was
verified on the basis of drilling data for the Gol-Gohar XIIA anomaly. 相似文献
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社会生态补偿标准测算方法(英文) 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Ecological compensation is a hot subject in academic studies, and the determina-tion of the spatial allocation of compensation payments is a key point in the research of eco-logical compensation. There are two kinds of thoughts in the determination of regional spatial allocation at present: "evaluation of ecological construction cost" and "evaluation of ecosystem services value". This paper analyzes the relationships between social ecological compensation and regional socio-economic development, and establishes two econometric models with the data of 2007 from various provinces in China. Through these models, the impacts of geographical endowments on the regional socio-economic development in various provinces are analyzed from the social justice viewpoint and the concept of "equivalent value of geographical endowments" (EGE for short) is proposed. This paper analyzes the application prospect of EGE in the policy making of regional ecological compensation. The results showed that: (1) the implementation of social ecological compensation is not only an effective guarantee for each region to obtain the equal rights of survival, development and decent environment, but also an essential assurance to the coordinated, balanced and sustainable development among various regions; (2) the regional difference in geographical endowments is an important factor affecting the regional spatial variation of socio-economic development. Therefore, geographical endowments are important bases for the determination of the spatial allocation of compensation payments in social ecological compensation; (3) based on the EGE, the government can determine the spatial allocation of social ecological compensation scientifically, and avoid the "sweeping approach" phenomenon in the policy making process of ecological compensation. 相似文献
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Defining the reference state of some perturbed streams and rivers is challenging since their non-altered state is undocumented.
Despite the near-absence of pristine sites in highly anthropogenic areas, information about aquatic communities that existed
prior to human disturbance can be obtained from historic sources. Sediment coring is commonly used in paleolimnology to estimate
past environmental conditions of lakes, but this technique is often not appropriate for studies of lotic systems. An alternative
is to use diatom assemblages present in the guts of fish that were captured in the streams prior to significant human disturbance.
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the biological integrity of several streams in Ontario and Québec during
the early twentieth century based on “paleo” diatom assemblages extracted from the guts of fish stored in museums. The Eastern
Canadian diatom index (IDEC: Indice Diatomées de l’Est du Canada) was used to evaluate the biological status of “paleo” and
“modern” diatom assemblages. The IDEC shows the position of diatom assemblages on a general pollution gradient. The comparison
of IDEC values calculated for the 1925–1948 and the 2003–2007 periods showed that several streams were severely polluted in
the early 1900s. In general, present water quality has declined compared to the early 1900s. The biological integrity of only
three of the 22 sites has increased. IDEC values were not influenced by the species of fish studied. 相似文献
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土地利用变化时空模型的图谱方法--以黄河三角洲为例 总被引：12，自引：0，他引：12
Changesinlandcoverandland-usehaveimpactsandimplicationsatlocal,regionalandglobalscalesbecauseofthewaytheyalterbiophysical,biogeochemicalandhydrologicalstatesandprocesses(Alcamoetal.,1996;Li,1996).Since1990,scientistsathomeandabroadhavebeenpayingattentiontoresearchesonland-useandland-coverchange(LUCC)(Turneretal.,1990;MeyerandTurner,1994),butresearchisnotenoughon"spaceandprocess"ofLUCC(Turneretal.,1995).Spatialrelationshipbetweenvariablesyethasnotbeenestablished(Bockstael,1996).Soitispara… 相似文献
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I. Mazzini C. Faranda M. Giardini C. Giraudi L. Sadori 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2011,45(2):243-256
We present a Holocene record of climate and environmental change in central New York (USA) inferred using lithologic and stable
isotope data from two sediment cores recovered in Cayuga Lake. The record was divided into three intervals: (1) early Holocene
(~11.6–8.8 ka), (2) Hypsithermal (~8.8–4.4 ka), and (3) Neoglacial (~4.4 ka to present). The early Holocene began abruptly,
with rising lake level and relatively deep water. Between ~10.8 and 9.2 ka, cool and dry conditions prevailed at a time of
maximum solar insolation. This anomaly has been referred to as the “post-Younger Dryas climate interval” and lasted ~1,600 years,
the approximate length of one “Bond cycle.” The Hypsithermal was the warmest, wettest and most biologically productive interval
of the Holocene in central New York. The Hypsithermal was characterized by centennial to multi-centennial-scale variability.
The 8.2 ka event is one such variation. The Neoglacial was an interval of generally cooler and dryer conditions, falling lake
levels, and several prominent climate anomalies. At approximately 2.4 ka, δ13C of bulk organic matter increased abruptly by 5‰ as lake level declined, and the lake flora was dominated by Chara sp. during the coldest interval of the Neoglacial. Numerous sediment variables display increased variability ~2.0 ka, which continues
today. Archaeological data from the literature suggest that Native American populations may have been large enough to impact
land cover by about 2.4 ka and we hypothesize that the “Anthropocene” began at about that time in central New York. We also
found paleolimnological evidence for the Medieval Warm Period (~1.4–0.5 ka), which was warmer and wetter than today, and for
the Little Ice Age (~500–150 years ago), a period with temperatures colder than today. 相似文献
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The US Geological Survey’s 1995 estimates of domestic undiscovered plus undeveloped natural gas nearly tripled quantities
estimated in its 1989 Assessment. Much of the increase came from selected unconventional resources assessed using the paradigm
of continuous-type accumulations. These include such seemingly unrelated “unconventional” gas occurrences as “tight gas,”
coalbed gas, gas in shales, and deep basin-center gas. Though only a small fraction of the assessed 352 trillion cubic feet
is now economic, the quantity is nevertheless significant. Moreover, the lowest cost resources are close to major gas markets
where competing conventional gas is modest. With continued technological improvements these resources can contribute significantly
to future U.S. gas supply, even without subsidies 相似文献
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The investigations on the organic carbon （OC） of core sediments were carried out in Chongming east tidal fiat （CM） during Scirpus mariqueter growing stage （from April to December 2004） in Yangtze Estuary. The Yangtze River annually transports a runoff discharge of 30,000 m^3/s, carrying about 480 million tons of sediments to the estuarine and coastal area, which formed a great OC pool. In the sampling spots, seven quadrats of 50 cm × 50 cm and five sediments cores of 20 cm deep （40 cm deep in December） were randomly established in order to collect vegetations and core sediments samples during the low tide each month except November. After pretreatment, the core sediments were sieved and their OC contents were measured according to the potassium dichromate method. The results show that the higher surface sediment OC content in summer comes from allochthonous terrigenous particle settlements on the Chongming east middle tidal fiat S. mariqueter zone. In autumn and winter, the decomposing of the defoliated S. mariqueter increases the surface sediments OC content. Settling velocity, sediment temperature and S. mariqueter growth are the main factors that can control the sediment carbon content. Summer is the “carbon losing” period of the tidal fiat sediments, while from September, it changes into the “carbon accumulating” period of sediment OC pool because of the decomposing of dead S. mariqueter community in the sediments. From this alternation of “carbon losing” period and “carbon accumulating” period, we conclude that carbon in the OC pool of the middle tidal fiat S. mariqueter zone sediments mainly comes from the atmospheric carbon rooted by S. mariqueter photosynthesis. 相似文献
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1 Introduction Oases are unique ecosystems and important residences for our ancestors in arid and semiarid regions of the world, and have deeply been imprinted by human actions, such as Jericho oasis of Jordan Valley, Jarmo oasis of the Euphrates River an… 相似文献
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Biodiversity and conservation in the Tibetan Plateau 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The Tibetan Plateau (Qinghai-Xizang Plateau) is a unique biogeographic region in the world, where various landscapes, altitudinal
belts, alpine ecosystems, and endangered and endemic species have been developed. A total of 26 altitudinal belts, 28 spectra
of altitudinal belts, 12,000 species of vascular plant, 5,000 species of epiphytes, 210 species of mammals, and 532 species
of birds have been recorded. The plateau is also one of the centers of species formation and differentiation in the world
To protect the biodiversity of the plateau, about 80 nature reserves have been designated, of which 45 are national or provincial,
covering about 22% of the plateau area. Most of the nature reserves are distributed in the southeastern plateau. Recently,
the Chinese government has initiated the “Natural Forests Protection Project of China,” mainly in the upper reaches of the
Yangtze and Yellow rivers. “No logging” policies have been made and implemented for these areas. 相似文献
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X. D. Liu S. P. Zhao L. G. Sun H. H. Luo X. B. Yin Z. Q. Xie Y. H. Wang K. X. Liu X. H. Wu X. F. Ding D. P. Fu 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2006,36(3):259-279
From a rare freshwater lake characteristic of alkalescence, named “Cattle Pond”, on the Dongdao Island of South China Sea (16°39′–16°41′ N, 112°43′–112°45′ E), we collected two undisturbed sediment cores that contain seabird droppings. In this paper, we determined the concentration-versus-depth profiles of the geochemical elements in the ornithogenic sediment layers of the two cores, analyzed these profiles by various statistical methods, and studied their geochemical characteristics. The concentration profiles of As, Cd, Cu, Se, Zn, P and S are significantly correlated with each other and with loss on ignition (LOI) at 550°C, the measure for the abundance of organic matter. Similar geochemical characteristics, however, were not observed in the upper sediment layer of the Cattle Pond notably affected by cattle excrements, as well as in the bottom sediment layer compositionally dominated by coral sand and gravel. This shows that these “bio-elements” are mainly derived from seabird feces and their geochemical composition is an important geochemical characteristic of the lacustrine ornithogenic sediments. By Q-mode factor analysis (QFA) on the concentration profiles of these bio-elements, we reconstructed the historical seabird population on Dongdao Island between 1350 and 350 year B.P., and observed significant fluctuations in the calculated population. The fluctuations seem to be related to the change of sea surface temperature (SST) in the Southern China Sea. This study provides new paleoenvironmental information of past seabird population changes in low latitude areas using an indirect geochemical method. 相似文献
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F. Ghassemzadeh J. Sherwood M. C. Geddes W. D. Williams 《International Journal of Salt Lake Research》1997,6(3):269-278
The analysis of nitrate in seawater and hypersaline waters should take account of a significant “salt effect”. Procedures
developed for fresh water and marine waters must be applied cautiously to highly saline waters. The most widely used standard
method for the determination of nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) in fresh and marine waters involves the quantitative reduction of nitrate by the Cd column technique followed by colorimetric
procedures. In our study, three approaches to estimate NO3-N in highly saline waters were examined. The first involved dilution. This approach overcame the salt effect but dilution
limited the detection of low concentrations of nitrate in highly saline waters. The second involved the use of standard nitrate
solutions in saline water. This method is not recommended because of nitrate impurities in AR grade salts. The third- and
preferred approach-involved the use of standard additions. “Spikes” of a known volume of NO3-N standard solution were added to natural saline waters. Nitrate values estimated by the stadard addition method were used
to calculate an equation for salt error correction at different salinities applicable to waters with the same relative ionic
composition as seawater. This could then be used to correct nitrate determinations in highly saline waters where standards
made in distilled water were used for calibration. Many previously published data for NO3-N in saline water used methods of analysis which do not take account of salt error and are therefore probably in error. 相似文献
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Catastrophic hurricane history revealed by organic geochemical proxies in coastal lake sediments: a case study of Lake Shelby,Alabama (USA) 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
We developed a new method for reconstructing millennia-long hurricane records from coastal environments that uses Organic
Geochemical Proxies (OGPs) of organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations and their δ13C and δ15N compositions. The new method is independent of presence/absence of sand layers and improves significantly the severe-storm
history resolution. The subject of this investigation is a 1.5 m long sediment core raised at 2.8 m water depth from the center
of Lake Shelby, Alabama, a freshwater lake located approximately 250 m from the Gulf of Mexico, from which an overwash sand-layer
based record was previously derived. The core contains two distinct sediment units; an upper 62 cm thick, fine-grained, organic-rich
lacustrine sapropel (gyttja) that shows no visible structures except one sand lamina at 23.7 cm depth, and an underlying 90 cm
thick, organic-poor lagoon/estuary clay unit. The sapropel unit was deposited over a 682 ± 30 cal year time interval (1320–2002 A.D.)
with a mean sedimentation rate of 0.79 ± 0.04 mm/year. Lake Shelby’s water column exhibits two contrasting states based on
water chemistry surveys (i) an “isolated”, stratified, mode under calm weather conditions with a relatively low trophic state,
and (ii) a “flooded” mode occurring during storm surges when nutrient-rich seawater floods the lake. Statistically significant
δ13C and δ15N positive excursions in organic matter, up to maximum values of −25 (‰ PDB) and 4 (‰ Air N2), respectively, are interpreted as geochemical responses to the marine intrusions that fertilize the lake, increase light
availability, and cause eutrophication spikes. Detailed OGPs analyses crossing a sand layer that offers visual evidence of
a catastrophic hurricane overwash event at 1717 A.D. exhibit large δ13C and δ15N positive shifts bounded by rapid returns to base values, thus confirming the validity of the hurricane identification by
the OGPs model. Our data indicate that 11 catastrophic hurricanes hit the Alabama coast over the past 682 years with a rough
recurrence interval of one in 62 years. 相似文献
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The “greatest lake period” means that the lakes are in the stage of their maximum areas. As the paleo lake shorelines are
widely distributed in the lake basins on the Tibetan Plateau, the lake areas during the “greatest lake period” may be inferred
by the last highest lake shorelines. They are several, even tens times larger than that at present. According to the analyses
of tens of lakes on the Plateau, most dating data fell into the range of 40-25 ka BP, some lasted to 20 ka BP. It was corresponded
to the stage 3 of marine isotope and interstitial of last glaciation. The occurrence of maximum areas of lakes marked the
very humid period on the Plateau and was also related to the stronger summer monsoon during that period. 相似文献